Intel 4670K i5 Haswell Review & Overclocking

Resident Evil 6 and Unigine Valley

There is no question that the Core i5-4670K is more than enough for gaming needs, or at least it seems so with Resident Evil 6. Without the Y axis you would never guess which was a i7-4770K and which was a i5-4670K result, let alone stock or overclocked.

Unigine Valley

Despite the stern nature (ha) of the Unigine Valley benchmark the Core i5-4670K just keeps plugging away. We would have imagined that the 8xMSAA 1440P Ultra test would favour the overclocked i7-4770K, and yet the stock i5-4670K gives identical results. Very impressive.

Nice piece of desire but gamers would love to know a few more stuff.
First, are there any reason to replace i5 2500K with this new cpu, imo no way?
Second, who wants to use a 100 quid cooling with the 150 quid chip for gaming? Yeahh it's fun to be tested but hey, I could have unload 250 quid for the i7+Freezer etc. at first, imo?

Nice piece of desire but gamers would love to know a few more stuff.
First, are there any reason to replace i5 2500K with this new cpu, imo no way?
Second, who wants to use a 100 quid cooling with the 150 quid chip for gaming? Yeahh it's fun to be tested but hey, I could have unload 250 quid for the i7+Freezer etc. at first, imo?

The idea is matey for a lot of us having a quiet rig is important. Nothing artic make will ever be quiet once you clock it.....

The idea is matey for a lot of us having a quiet rig is important. Nothing artic make will ever be quiet once you clock it.....

Take the rig away from a battle station
Good point Tom. Been there with a custom watercooling system plus GTs plus fan-controller. As to AC, they offered a number of great cooling stuff in the past ie. Accelero and Freezer series, not to mention the best-for-the-money part

Take the rig away from a battle station
Good point Tom. Been there with a custom watercooling system plus GTs plus fan-controller. As to AC, they offered a number of great cooling stuff in the past ie. Accelero and Freezer series, not to mention the best-for-the-money part

They were cheap matey, it was like the first stop after a stock cooler.

Once you get away from not having the money to spend on a cooler any better you soon realise that decent temps and quiet performance is worth paying a bit extra for.

OK, just finished watching the video. As great as always. But the best part was the "tsk tsk"

Now, I've got this chip and the Asus "Hero" (because I got it for MUCH lesser than MOST good z87 mainstream boards and I do like the features). I'm really stuck on the RAM decision though. The Corsair Vengeance PRO ones aren't available yet, however there are some pretty fast (c7, c8) 16GB 1600/1866MHz TridentX DC kits, as well as the plain vengeance c10 kits available for about almost the same price. I have not yet been able to test the chip and board bwcause of the lack of RAM. My question is... is it worth waiting for the PROs or the older vengeance ones (or TridentX) are good-enough? I do fps sp gaming but also do occasional photo/video editing among other "normal" stuff.

Don't know how this will be during games but just on the desktop the i5 4670K is VERY quiet with just the stock Intel reference cooler, it's reading about 40 degrees. Really pleased with it, so we'll see how it performs in games.

Edit: Just been on BF4 with everything maxed out and the noise certainly picked up but still comfortable, wasn't ridiculously loud, I'll have to get some software to monitor temps.

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